More than a month after his mysterious disappearance, the Argentine truck driver Nicolas Matias del Rio was found dead this Tuesday afternoon in a house located in Arcidosso, an Italian town in the province of Grosseto, in the Tuscany region. While the investigation continues to determine under what circumstances the transporter who died He lived in the city of Siena, The local police arrested two men as suspects of what could have been a crime: a Turk and an Albanian.
From the River, from 48 years, had been intensely searched since May 22, the date on which he had been last seen. According to the newspaper Corriere FlorentinoDel Río’s body appeared in a cliff close to a house, where the designer Gucci bags that the Argentine was transporting in his truck at the time of his disappearance were also hidden.
The man, who had Italian citizenship, worked as a truck driver and the vehicle he used to transport the merchandise It was found on fire in an open area.
Carolina AlegreNicolás’ wife, spoke last night with the news channel TN And, still shocked by the news, she said she is waiting for them to call her before going to identify the body and begin the examinations. “We don’t even know when it happened, or since when he was there, or how it was, or in what way.”he explained.
Regarding the investigation, Nicolás’s wife said that the Italian authorities also have as suspects the parents of the detained Albanian, because Remains of the shipment of wallets were found in their house. luxury – valued at about 500,000 euros– that Del Río was carrying when he disappeared.
After the discovery, the police searched the property in the presence of Klodian Gioni’s father, the young Albanian who was detained on Saturday, June 15 at the Ciampino airport, while taking a flight to Tirana, the capital city of his native country, according to the aforementioned Italian media.
They are also investigated Niko Gioni and a man named Zindan, the father of one of the two detained Turks, Ozkurt Bozkurt. The other suspect is Emre Kajaalso accused of being part of the gang that, according to the reconstruction of the police and the Grosseto prosecutor, Giovanni De Marco, first robbed Nicolas and then took him to the place where the bags were hidden.
During the interview, Carolina exempted the owners of the company from responsibilities for the disappearance of her husband, if not He points out that the employees of the bag factory are the culprits.
“The Albanian man worked for many years in that factory and knew all the movements. “He had been fired for stealing wallets before.”Alegre said about one of the detainees. Likewise, the victim’s wife reported that the suspect had a trial scheduled for the robberies he committed for September of this year and claimed: “He was free as if nothing had happened.”
Upon learning of his disappearance, Nicolás’s family, originally from the Buenos Aires town of Lanús, appeared before the Italian Consulate in Argentina to file a complaint.
It was at the beginning of June when the intense search for the Argentine carrier that was being carried out in the European country emerged, since since May 22 there has been noor there was news about his whereabouts.
That day, the man had to transport 300 designer bags from the Amiata companybut the products never reached their destination.
The last person Nicolás had communication with that day was his boss. It was a cell phone call at 5:10 p.m., when she told him about an unclear situation.
“I was making a delivery and went to look for this merchandise (the luxury handbags). Apparently, when he left the place they crossed him and there was a strange call with the boss,” said his brother.
“This guy Gony, who knew his boss, told him that his truck had broken down and that he needed to take some boxes to another place,” Ezequiel said about the request that an alleged co-worker had made.
Now the Grosseto prosecutor’s office is investigating voluntary manslaughter and kidnappingcrimes that are added to those of theft and damage.
